Die
GPL wird ja manchmal als "viral" bezeichntet, weil sie alle Projekte, in denen
GPL-Code verwendet wird, auch der
GPL unterstellt, also "infiziert". Meine Frage ist nun, ob die folgende Lizenz (MIT) auch diese Eigenschaft hat:
Code:
The MIT License
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Zitat:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
deutet ja auf etwas in die Richtung an. Im Internet ( http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22mit+license%22+viral&meta=" ) habe ich aber zb mehrer Artikel in Richtung von
http://groboutils.sourceforge.net/license.html gefunden (unten drunter steht
Zitat:
Originally, GroboUtils was released under the
LGPL. However, due to hard-to-read language included in the
LGPL, and many people's concerns over the possible viral nature of the
LGPL (and the Free Software Foundation's comments that covering Java code under the
LGPL is the same as putting it under the
GPL), the author moved the license over to the MIT license on February 10, 2003.
Ich versthe das jetzt nicht so ganz...